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Journalist of the newspaper "Gardian" said that he did not write a book published under his name Publishing House "Algorithm" in the Putin project series

The reporter of the British newspaper Gardian about Russia Luke Harding said on his Twitter that no one except Putin wrote the book, published by the Russian publishing house Algorithm in the Putin project, which has more than two dozen books.

Harding also expressed great doubts that the former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote the book “Understand Putin”, where he is indicated by the author. At the same time, the site of the first BBC Russian service , journalist Ilya Azar, on his Twitter, reported that the American reporter Michael Bom is not the author of the book “President Putin's Error” - the last, published in the same series of Arsenal Publishing House Project Putin. Later, Bom confirmed these words on the air of "Echo of Moscow". Among other authors of the series Eric Ford, Boris Nemtsov, Alexander RAR, Sergey Chinkaryan, Sergey Udaltsov, Eduard Limonov.

@Shaunwalker7 Nope, I DIDN%27T WRITE "Nobody But Putin"! I SUSPECT HENRY KISSINGER DIDN%27T PEN HIS "Book" Either. In Which Case, Who DID?

- Luke harding (@lukeharding1968) August 8, 2015

The full name of the book attributed to Luke of the book is “no one except Putin. Why is the Russian“ System ”recognized him. Links to it can be found in the catalogs of Russian publications. Circulation - 2000 copies. The year of issue 2015. The book says: it says:

"Luke Harding for a long time worked as a Moscow correspondent of The Guardian newspaper. For a scandalous interview with the disgraced oligarch B. Berezovsky, he was sent from our country and later in England released the book" Mafiose state ", in which there was no difference in Russia between power and the criminals: organized crime and power organs of steel. In his new book, L. Harding develops this idea - he says that on the top of the Russian government (in the "system", as he calls it) there is no war for the future path of Russia between "reformers" and "statesmen". I am convinced that Vladimir Putin is the only one who can guarantee the further functioning of this system.

The preface, very critical of Harding, is signed by Israel Shamir . This is the name of the Russian-Israeli author, known for his anti-Sionist views. Shamir accuses Harding of "playing a large role in the information war against Russia", editing the Russian dossier WikiLeaks for "Gardian"; "by the command of the heart, by the will of Western financial circles" wet "Alexander Lukashenko; He distorted real events in his messages, misleading readers. Shamir (if he is really the author of the preface) notes that "the views of Luke Harding are indicative for certain circles of British politicians, journalists and public figures."

Not fraud, but almost. Coursework of the Kremlinbot

Here is a list of chapters of the book "Nobody except Putin":

The top of the agents; "Be careful"; Coffee shop "Academy"; London divorce from Moscow; "News from Russia - a joke"; Political football; New bourgeoisie; Past and future war; "Clean the garbage!"; Five "principles" of Russia; Batman and Robin; "Wikileaks"; "Thanks to Dima and Volodya"; Putin postmodernism; Tandem did not leave Russia a choice; Putin postmodern state; Putin: the return of the king; Putin's brilliant move on the eve of the Olympics; Russia has a long period of stagnation and political pressure.

The director of the Algorithm Publishing House Sergei Nikolaev , said in an interview with Echo of Moscow that it was Harding who wrote the book "No one except Putin." According to him, the publisher’s employees transferred the book of a British journalist, "published in Ukraine." According to Nikolaev, "they could not contact Harding about the contract and the fee." “It’s easier for us to publish a book, then the person is turning, we are explained and that's it,” the director of the publishing house said.

In an interview with Radio Liberty, Luke Harding categorically rejected his authorship of the book "Nobody except Putin":

- This is a very strange story. This book has nothing to do with me, I did not write it and did not even authorize its translation or publication. As I learned about the existence of this book ... A couple of weeks ago I received an IWIL from a Moscow friend, the owner of a bookstore who sold this book - "No one except Putin." He congratulated me on the book, I replied that I did not know anything about the book, never wrote it and did not even see it. None of the publisher who published it contacted me, did not call, I received no letters from him by e -mail. This is a very strange publishing house: contrary to the international practice of book publishing, it publishes materials, attributing them to absolutely strangers without their knowledge, and at the same time does not have an English original and any rights to the publication.

- The editor -in -chief of the Algorithm publishing house in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station claims that the Russian edition of the book “Nobody besides Putin” is a translation from its Ukrainian publication. Did you really publish this book in Ukraine?

-Ha ha ha ... My only book that has been translated in Ukraine, as well as in the other 20 languages, is the "mafia state", in which I talk about the misadventures in Moscow, where I represented the Gardian newspaper for several years. This book was published in 2011. My publisher is my newspaper, this is the Huardian Books publishing house, which also knows nothing about this fake and did not receive any information from Moscow publishers.

- The Algorithm Publishing House, according to its chief editor, is ready to pay you a fee for the book. True, the amount is not called. How do you feel about this?

- Again, this is at a dead end: usually the author’s fee is paid according to the agreement concluded between the publisher and the author. There is no agreement here. The publishing house has nothing to present. What kind of fee can be discussed if he is not previously discussed in the contract. Such publishing practice does not exist anywhere. This is not even a pirate publication, this is some kind of phantom project. I got into the company of Henry Kissinger, Michael Bom, Boris Nemtsov, who probably, like me, did not write books published by this publishing house. I want to say that this scam applies not only to me. This applies to all other authors and all citizens of Russia, which may become victims of such publications. This is a very strange story, - concludes Luke Harding.

The victim of the Algorithm publishing house was another famous British journalist - the observer of Economist magazine Edward Lucas . In a letter of Radio Liberty, he, in particular, writes that he was also marked by this publishing house last year and that someone wants to cash in, stealing his work. In any case, Lucas notes, all his work has a copy. Edward Lucas reports that the Algorithm publishing house is engaged in the compilation and reprint of his work without the permission of his himself and his English publishers, and that he had already addressed his literary agent with a request to deal with the Moscow publishing house.

The book attributed to Henry Kissinger is called completely "to understand Putin. Politics of common sense." This book (recall that Henry Kissinger himself has not yet disputed its authorship) came out in the same publishing house "Algorithm" in September last year. Annotation at the same time reports:

"In the book presented to your attention, Kissinger talks about the reasons for the current systemic crisis in the world. Particular attention is paid to the foreign policy of Vladimir Putin, which Henry Kissinger calls" Politics of common sense. "In this regard, Putin’s position in Ukraine is evaluated - Kissinger accepts it with well -known reservations and calls for Putin to understand Putin in this matter."

It is interesting that the first commentary on the Litres.ru website is like this: “When he saw a new book by Henry Kissinger, he was happy to bought and comprehended ... extreme disappointment. This is not a book by Henry Kissinger. Someone put fragments from his books“ Diplomacy ”and“ Do America needs foreign policy ”, gathered the interview of Kissinger about his views on his views on his views Russia and the authorship of Kissinger was not fraud, but almost.

Another commentator agrees with this opinion:

"Strange compilation work. Great doubts that Kissinger himself wrote it. It is incomprehensible. It is not clear. Cutting from the articles of Kissinger are collected, in general, torn from context. The declared topic is given quite a little space." The author "are trying to carefully bypass the topic of the US participation in all the ugliness in the world in the past few decades, but this is notable. The feeling that the book is called upon to the US right to impose pseudo-democracy throughout the world.

Two years ago, a criminal case was opened against the Algorithm publishing house on the fact of inciting hatred in connection with the publication of books by Benito Mussolini and Joseph Goebbels. "The psychological linguistic research conducted by the extremist nature of these printed publications, justifying and justifying the ideology of Nazism, as well as the national and racial superiority of some persons over others," the Moscow prosecutor's office said. Eduard Limonov then spoke in support of the publisher.

It is necessary to protect the algorithm. The criminal case for books is 19 of Veraly, they banned Mussolini’s book, tomorrow they will take up live Russian authors.

- Eduard Limonov (@edvlimonov) September 27, 2013

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  Andrey Sharogradsky

  International Radio Offer Freedom. Author and host of the information and analytical digest, podcast "Time of Freedom"